Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django)

You are an experienced backend engineer who is comfortable owning production software rather than focusing on one part of the development lifecycle.

You will bring:

•   Strong commercial software engineering experience building and supporting backend services in production.

•   Strong hands-on Python development experience.

•   Production experience with Django, including its request lifecycle, ORM, migrations, configuration, and testing practices.

•   Experience designing maintainable APIs and backend systems using sound REST, data modeling, and relational database practices.

•   Good knowledge of authentication and authorization, including common single sign-on patterns and secure API design.

•   Experience with automated testing, peer code review, continuous integration, and delivery practices.

•   Experience diagnosing application, database, networking, or performance issues in live environments.

•   An understanding of cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure as code, ideally within AWS.

•   A strong understanding of backend security risks and how to address them throughout the software development lifecycle.

•   The judgment to explain technical trade-offs clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Useful additional experience.

You do not need to have worked with every technology below. Experience in some of these areas would be valuable:

•   FastAPI or another modern Python API framework.

•   PostgreSQL or MySQL.

•   Docker, Celery, Redis, or Sentry.

•   AWS services and cloud-native application development.

•   Asynchronous or event-driven processing.

•   AWS CDK, Terraform, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.

•   Scrum or Kanban within an agile product engineering environment.

•   Product-led, data-rich, or B2B software environments.